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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Lyman D. Wilbur, son of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, to Miss Henrietta Shattuck, school teacher, daughter of the late Herbert A. Shattuck, publicity director for Inventor Thomas A. Edison; at Leland Stanford Jr. University, Calif...
...clock, dusty wagons, gigs, buggies and small automobiles come jogging in along the country roads. In them are gaunt farmers, their wives in gingham and children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings in the trial of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, alleged violator of the state's antievolution law, bewildered instrument of Science and Faith which have accidentally chosen Dayton as their battleground and in whose wake has come the usual camp-following of freaks, fakes, mountebanks and parasites of publicity...
...wandered to Robinson's drug store for a strawberry sundae. There sat freckle-faced young Teacher Scopes, in his blue shirt and hand-painted bow tie, grinning with bashful curiosity at passers-by ("like the Prince of Wales," said one fanciful reporter) and listening to his proud father, Thomas Scopes of Paducah, Ky., exclaim: "John was always an extraordinary boy." Father Scopes was proceeding to uncomplimentary remarks about Lawyer Bryan when the son interrupted...
...right? It would be very painful to me to hear that he had fallen a victim to synthetic sin." The Courtroom. Lawyers Colby of Manhattan and Godsey of Dayton having withdrawn from the case (the latter cowering before public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across at Lawyer Bryan, rather voluptuous in a black mohair suit, surrounded by assistant counsel...
Jury. A jury was sworn - ten farmers, a shipping clerk and a farmer-teacher, none of whom had ever read a book on Evolution or admitted a prejudice for or against it; all of whom, with the exception of one illiterate, had read the Bible...